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Oh. My. God.

His resume starts with a quote of himself stating that he has “seen things you people wouldn't believe.”

It goes on to highlight that he purchased a domain name in 1997.

He claims to have developed “the highest performing in-memory database in the world” but complains that “nobody really wants to buy it when free worse performing choies [sic] exist.”

The part about nobody wanting to buy his product is in his resume.

His current status is “Waiting for AI apocalypse.”

This is either mega-cringe, or the best satire I’ve read in a while. Unfortunately, I think it’s the former.

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An inflated and grandiose view of yourself and your actions is classic bipolar II during bouts of mania, I skimmed the article a bit and immediately got those vibes. Particularly in how long and rambling the content is, it strikes me as something written all at once, without any real review.

(I grew up around a bipolar II individual. I am not an expert.)

it did hit a nerve here though, ~1000 comments. I couldn't finish it due to rambling style but i do find some insightful comment threads here.

My guess it's the perfect HN bait. Starts with a meaningful factoid. Makes grand unhinged claims. Then starts rambling about everything under the sun.

If you had a preconceived topic you care about: this blog post gives you every imaginable opening. Free of any substance which might define a direction for discussion.

I think this topic is on a lot of peoples' minds, and it would be nice to get a discussion thread going about it with a quality article at the focal point instead of this completely uninformed one.

I'm shocked that you're the only one pointing this out. This is clearly a manic episode. You can tell this was written in one go. Some users have pointed out the authors absolutely absurd resume.

And despite the fact that this article is filled with absolutely wild claims and martyr-laden tangents, the response here on HN proves that passion is worth more than substance in the tech world. Which explains a lot.

I don't think it's satire.

The "Experience" section looks like a big complain about the world not recognizing his genius.

I really don't think a lot people would call him for an interview just by looking at this resume.

Any reasonably observant individual could claim the same at this point.

The rest sounds like high flying BS to my ears, isolating yourself has consequences.

I think there may indeed be some satire or silly fun going on, for instance: "By the power of drawing two lines, we see correlation is causation and you can’t argue otherwise" and the "goal is to earn $69,420 per month"

Totally agree about the linked article.

I’m less sure about his resume, though:

https://matt.sh/files/a-resume/resume.html

I laughed and really enjoyed "Employment Vibes"

This is probably just a "public resume". He obfruscates company names ("social network company in 2008" huh...) and admits his timelines for technologies is a bit fuzzy. Probably a mix of ageism shielding and privacy despite being a very publicly spoken person.

That or he truly did work at a "nepo company", as he phrases it. Not many people can just travel the world for 5 years, let alone boast about it on their resume.

> a quote of himself

Curious, did you seriously not recognize that this is a famous quote from the final scene in Blader Runner?

I read that more as quirky call out to a famous film, not that he was claiming this was his own view of the world.

I did not recognize the quote. I haven’t seen Blade Runner.

The quote is attributed to “Matt,” and it’s at the top of Matt’s resume. The speaker in Blade Runner was Roy Batty. If Matt was trying to include a famous quote on his resume, why did he attribute the quote to himself?

Regardless of the answer, I don’t think a technical resume is the right place for quirky call-outs to films. Particularly if you are substituting your own name as the speaker of the quote. Maybe I’m being too harsh, but in the context of this resume, IMO, it’s just another red flag.

well, given his experience and assumed compensation, people will perceive him (not necessarily that he is, but companies will think) as some 200+ IQ genius that can get stuff done. It'll come off as snarky to the non-elite, but I guess that's what you do to get top dollar here.

Or any industry, really.

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